“Quotations. I
hadn’t realised that they were so numerous as you apparently found them.”

–– C. S. Lewis on The
Pilgrim’s Regress in a letter to Arthur Greeves, 17 December 1932

An index to public names

in C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy

“Public
names” in C. S. Lewis’s autobiography Surprised by Joy (1955) are all
names which are assumed to have any degree of public currency of their own.
“Names” include titles of published writings and works of musical or pictorial art.
These titles are linked to their authors except, of course, in the case of
anonymous works.

Several
names, while given in full here, are in fact “hidden” in Lewis’s book. This
means that they may not be actually found in one or more of the places referred
to. For example, two of the three references to Keats’s Endymion refer
to lines from that poem quoted without mention either of Keats or of Endymion.

The present
list gives two types of reference, separated by a slash (/): first the page number
in the book’s first edition (Geoffrey Bles, London 1955); then a combination of
chapter and paragraph number. For example, the reference “140 / IX.23” for
Apuleius means that this name (or some Apuleius-related word or phrase) can be
found in chapter IX, paragraph 23, which is page 140 in the first edition. Abbreviations:
Pr = Preface, Ep = Epigraph. If you prefer a list with page numbers only, click here; if you
prefer chapter-and-paragraph
numbers only, click here. Corrections
and additions are welcome.